Addressing the survival of the legendary CR500!
https://www.bannedcr500riders.com/
Thanks Glen, can you please help the poor sole out ? what does DOM mean on the SCAT- TRAX, and do you stock a 12 paddle. Thanks Glenglen howell wrote:The last time I was at sand MT. in UTAH was in 2001 and I was on a 720cc Heavy breathed on CR-500 It had big bore modded crancases to accept the large stroker, modded .the cyl. had similar porting as our new race porting.Hand made cone pipe (BIG) Running on nitro-methane . We were running a 18 paddle offset "DOM" SCAT-TRAX on a 628X18 carcas.The gearing as I remember was 15-46 we beat ever thing there but a dune buggy with a MAZDA ROTARY ENGINE (with two turbo's)It ran so good that a very famous guy by the name of ROBBIE KNIVEL rode the bike several times and fell in love with it (he wanted to buy it) But it was a experimental bike and was not for sale.I would think if you we're to have a good running CR-500 geared 14-49 a 12 or 14 paddle "DOM" would do very well my next choice because of the size being 560X18 would be a chin 10 paddle because they spin good and come up on top of the sand and they are only about $50.00 at any bike shop VS $125.00 for a "DOM" 12paddle.Glen
Have you been there lately? the road has all been grated from the turn off to the ranger station to sand mountain and to oasis, it realy sucks. Dont bother cleaning anything beforehand, my truck and trailer was a mess. Hpoe they get it done soon, we went on 6-5-10 so maybe they will have started to pave it, my freind went over memorial weekend and said it was all tore up then.100hp honda wrote:when you going to be at sand mnt ? ill have one of my ktm's down there in a few weeks
from the main highway all the way to the mnt has been paved for many years, atleast 17 years because thats when i started going there. they probly tore it up to do a re-pave, just a guess. 2-3 weeks is when ill be there, possibly july 4th weekend. not 100% sure exactly yet. you got a running bike to ride ?powermizer wrote:Have you been there lately? the road has all been grated from the turn off to the ranger station to sand mountain and to oasis, it realy sucks. Dont bother cleaning anything beforehand, my truck and trailer was a mess. Hpoe they get it done soon, we went on 6-5-10 so maybe they will have started to pave it, my freind went over memorial weekend and said it was all tore up then.100hp honda wrote:when you going to be at sand mnt ? ill have one of my ktm's down there in a few weeks